"The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it"

-- Tim Crane

#Wine Quotes #Aesthetic Quotes #Understood Quotes

“My problem was never with the major label, it was with the guy who we put our trust in and then wouldn't take my phone calls once we'd signed to a major label, who then quit.”

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“I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school”
“For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.”
“If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.”
“Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.”
“The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it. This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever.”
“Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.”
“We need to learn to treat our own brain better - understanding how it works will help us do that.”

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